Residential Real Estate

An open secret is the best way to describe the foreclosure auction process for homes in Mecklenburg County. Held twice a week on the ground level of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, foreclosure auctions generate interest with professional investors, curiosity seekers ...

Prices in the Charlotte market continued to rise in May even as sales activity declined from the past year. The Charlotte Regional Realtor Association report shows that May sales fell 6.5 percent from last year’s levels, but were up 6.8 ...

Foreclosure activity in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord metro area was up 8.28 percent in May from the previous month, a new analysis by RealtyTrac shows. The increase was largely driven by an uptick in the number of properties that were moved into ...

Keeping a roof over one’s head is becoming increasingly difficult for a majority of American households, whether they own or rent. New research conducted by the nonprofit MacArthur Foundation found that 52 percent of adults have had to make some ...

With the Charlotte housing market on course for a second year of healthy rebound, real estate professionals across the region are reassessing lessons learned from the housing debacle that nearly derailed the economy, and taking stock of what has changed ...

Two Charlotte real estate professionals recently voluntarily surrendered their licenses to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission. In cases of voluntary surrender, the commission does not hold a formal hearing or require a respondent to answer charges brought to its ...

FORT MILL, S.C. – Don’t forget the homemade peach ice cream from Springs Farm PeachStand. When James Martin, vice president of Crescent Communities’ residential group, gets to going on about why the long-dormant town of Fort Mill is in the ...

Robert Dulin knows a thing or two about real estate. He’s been in the industry since 1985, buying and selling homes with a focus on Myers Park and other in-town neighborhoods like Dilworth and SouthPark. A top producer in his ...

Foreclosures completed in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro area were down 19.5 percent in April from the year before, according to a CoreLogic report. Area properties in some stage of foreclosure accounted for 1.2 percent of all homes with a mortgage, a ...

Home sales in April for the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord metro area barely increased from the previous month, rising .63 percent. Compared to a year ago, the volume of sales for existing single-family homes, town homes and condos was up 9.55 percent, according ...